Overview
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* Location: Yeovil, Somerset
* Contract: Permanent
* Working hours per week: 40
* Salary: Up to £36,925
* Closing Date: Friday 10 October 2025
Responsibilities
* To provide leadership of the Employment and Careers programme, including regular review of curriculum plans, resources and assessment.
* To support and coach education staff to embed employability goals and themes across the curriculum and to contribute to the quality assurance of planning and delivery.
* To devise and deliver relevant staff training on job coaching and pathways to employment with support from the employment and enrichment coordinator.
* To create and follow high quality and ambitious careers programmes or curriculum plans, vocational profiles and careers and employment procedures and processes incorporating external careers advisor views, student and stakeholder views and ensuring the process uses Gatsby benchmarks to ensure a college wide commitment to employment and careers pathways for all students.
* To create high quality job descriptions for internal work placement, volunteering work placements and ensure work placement opportunities are sourced and risk assessed in a personalised manner for all students on roll with the support of the enrichment and employment coordinator.
* To act as a job coach and provide regular review of the success and progress of students within all internal, external, voluntary and other work experience, providing guidance to support staff and enrichment and employment coordinator to ensure increasing independence is a key outcome in all tasks expected of students as part of work experience.
* To use feedback and assessment to inform next steps for students, identify goals and learning gaps and share this feedback and data with the wider education team to inform planning for the careers programme and curriculum.
* Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating with all college colleagues in care, clinical and education, aiming to expand the horizons and improve the skills of young people.
* To work with the employment and enrichment coordinator to develop key links with local employers, providers and schools and use networks to expand opportunities for students both during and post Lufton.
General Responsibilities
* Communicate courteously, clearly, accurately and regularly with parents, Local Authorities, the local community and other outside agencies and ensure that all communications are completed in a timely manner and recorded.
* To complete mandatory training in all areas of compliance and take part in regular training and development opportunities selected in line with the college staff development plan.
* To attend work reliably and punctually and role model to colleagues and students our college FRESH values and student and staff charter.
We pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and reference checks.
If you want to learn from and work with a highly specialist, incredibly proud and integrated team that unlocks the potential of young people, then please talk to us.
Job Description: JD_Head_of_Department_Employability.pdf
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